Ohio woman arrested after climbing 285-foot tower (video)

WOOSTER, Ohio -- A 29-year-old woman pleaded guilty to several misdemeanor charges after she climbed a 285-foot cellphone tower and refused to come down for nearly three hours, reports say.

According to the Alliance Review,
Jessica Lee McCarty of Polk, Ohio, pleaded guilty on Friday to charges of inducing panic, disorderly conduct and criminal trespass. She will be sentenced next month.

Officials with the Wayne County Sheriff's Department say a passer-by noticed a person at the top of the tower at about 6:20 p.m. Thursday,
the Daily Record reports
.

Sheriff's Capt. Doug Hunter says Polk was animated while at the top of the tower and could be seen jumping from beam to beam.

Two firefighters climbed up the side of the tower in an attempt to bring the woman down and another official on the ground tried to communicate using the PA system in a patrol car.

"On occasion she would call us names such as idiots and be generally smart mouthed as we were trying to get some cooperation from her," a court affidavit says, according to the Review. "When telling her the fire department was going to come up and assist in getting her down she indicated she would not cooperate with them and would come down when she was ready and didn't need or want any help."

The woman safely climbed down at about 9:15 p.m. Hunter tells the Daily Record it's believed she was under the influence of drugs.